Fun Filled Weekend

We have been busy bees this weekend. Mykenzie had a sleepover Friday at the Discovery Center for girl scouts. They chose that as their reward for selling so many girl scout cookies. They all had a great time playing and learning some new things about water and density. They went to sleep much better than I thought they would. I suppose all of the playing wore them out. Unfortunately there was an awful talking machine that could not be turned off with a gong sounding on it every few minutes. I did not sleep very well but we had a good time. And most of the girls were pretty well behaved. lol
We had to be out of there early Saturday morning. Lets just say I was in bed by 11:30 and I was not seen again till a little after 4. I was freaking tired! lol Oh, forgot to mention my new neighbors fighting in the street at 1:30 am on Thursday night making it very difficult to go back to sleep. So pretty much 2 nights in a row of tossing and turning. I didn't just come home exhausted, but also sniffing and sneezing. So who the heck knows if that is a cold or simply allergies. So the nap was very very nice! I never do that so I am glad that Travis kept the kids out of my hair so I could.
Today we had a birthday party to go to. I decided to leave Kaylee home with Travis and I am very glad that I did! lol The kids had a great time. Though I am still sniffing and sneezing I am feeling much better than I was yesterday so I was able to chat and have fun too.
My brother in law is coming on Thursday so I have to get my house in order and get some food here for them to eat. I know that sounds easy enough but you can't see my house!! LOL

It's nice to know

Yesterday afternoon my phone rang and it was a message from Mykenzie's school saying that all the kids were safe. I am thinking why wouldn't they be?? Apparently the school was on lock down yesterday because the police were in pursuit of a dangerous "suspect" The kids that were in portables were brought inside the school and the school was locked down, no one in or out. Mykenzie and the rest of the 1st grade students were on a field trip so they were not there for it. The were rerouted to another elementary school until the threat was over when they were finished with their field trip. I later heard on the news that a man used scissors as a weapon to rape someone and when the police went to question him he ran and a rather large man hunt ensued. I had no idea it was going on and it really wasn't even that far from my house. I guess the news doesn't come on the Disney channel! lol
During the entire thing the school kept the parents informed and up to date with what was going on. They didn't know details but they were helpful. Mykenzie's teacher called me twice to let me know what was happening and the school also called and encouraged us to call them if we had any questions. Since I knew Mykenzie was safe the only question that I really needed to know was whether or not I would have to pick her up at the other school. They ended up catching the guy in question, and the 1st graders were bused back to the school and it was pick up as usual. I feel good know that our community and the school especially will spring to immediate action to keep our children safe as well as keeping the parents informed. I know it is their jobs and all, but if they wouldn't have moved as quickly as they had you never know what could have happened. You really never know how fast people will react until they are in a situation. It is just good to know that they take all precautions necessary. I probably would have been a bit more worried if Mykenzie would have actually been at the school though.

Routines.. Yeah they work real well

I swear! For at least a year and a half now we have had the same morning pretty much 5 days a week so you would think that they would know what to expect, and by they I mean Mykenzie basically. She gets up, gets dressed, comes into my room to get her hair done, we go downstairs and I get them breakfast, she puts on her shoes, goes upstairs to brush her teeth and comes down puts on a coat and gets her backpack and we leave. This never changes on school days, never. If we are ready by some miracle earlier than what we have to leave then they are allowed to watch some cartoons. WHY in the world does she continue to think that these things are optional or that she has an unlimited amount of time in which to complete them? I have to holler at her to eat & to get her shoes on (which she can NEVER find, no matter how many times, and I mean everyday, she gets in trouble for not putting them away. To the point that she had to miss cheer leading last week cause I handed her the shoes from the middle of the living room and told her to put them away (we have a shoe thing on the back of the closet door) so she threw them on the closet floor and the dog chewed them up. She got them right before vacation and has worn them twice!!!) I just don't understand why she knows exactly what she has to do in the morning but it still requires her getting in trouble before she does any of it. I give her regular time updates, like I'll say "We have to leave in 15 minutes and you still need to finish eating, get your shoes on and brush your teeth" And she still sits there, taking her sweet time. She is absolutely getting on my last few nerves with all of this testing she is doing to me. I suppose she thinks she is old enough to do what she wants and make the rules. If she is doing it at 6 what the hell will this house be like when she is 14!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dear Lord. She is fun, and overall a really good kid, but boy oh boy that girl knows how to test me!

We saw the Easter Bunny

Since Mykenzie didn't have school yesterday we decided to run some errands and stop by the mall to say Hello to the Easter Bunny. Kaylee did really well and I soooo wish that rather than telling her at Disney world that she was going to see the characters that I would have said they were going to pick her up and hold her. I said that about the Easter bunny and she was FINE she walk right up and raised her arms so he could pick her up!!! She was nervous but she still let him do it! GRR! I am so mad at myself that I didn't do that at Disney. Anyhow, we got a pretty cute picture out of it that I am going to try and attach to this post.

Today we are going to the Girl Scouts egg hunt even though it is freezing and then we are going to hit up either Applebees (I have been craving it) or this new Mexican restaurant we discovered called Las Palmas Verdes I think, I have been craving that also. Not sure what I really want today. Then to the grocery store to get our ham for tomorrow and home to color eggs and then early to bed so we can get up early and see what the Easter bunny left. I doubt we will go anywhere tomorrow but who knows? Hope you all have a wonderful Easter

Did she miss the memo??

I think that somehow Mother Nature missed the memo that it is now SPRING! It is April 7th and the day before Easter. Apparently none of this matters cause it is flipping freezing and beyond that it is SNOWING! For Pete's sake! I am going to an Easter Egg hunt outside this afternoon and it is flipping snowing! Oh and all the flowers we planted last week, yeah, they are dead. I even broke out the sheets and blankets and covered them the past 2 nights. I have my receipts though and I think that both Lowes and Home Depot guarantee their flowers for a year. I will definitely be checking into that and doing some returning if I can. Luckily we didn't but a ton, but $60 worth! We aren't supposed to hit the 70's again until April 13th which is Friday. Right now it is 35 with a real feel temp of 25. So in my book it is 25, real feel my ass. Mykenzie is wondering why the Easter bunny is coming to welcome spring when it is so dang cold! Hope he can travel in this weather! lol

What do I do now?

It seems like for the past few months I have always had something to plan, something major going on and now, nothing. I way over analyze Christmas and over plan for it. Then I had vacation stuff going on. All the anticipation and thinking and planing for those things and now they are just wonderful memories. Now what. I have Easter but that was pretty easy and I already have the girls baskets put together. I did that today and I stuffed eggs for all the egg hunts we have going on last week. Why do I feel the need to have something going on that I can control? And why is it that I can't get controlling about my house and get the freaking thing clean? That is something I have absolutely no desire to do. My downstairs is picked up (not clean) and my upstairs look like it threw up on itself. Can't get behind doing that though. This month is actually going to be pretty busy with visits from my brother in law Tony and then 2 days later my sister and niece are coming. Not to mention, Easter, parties and a ton of girl scout stuff. It will all keep us really busy but I don't have anything to do with them other than show up, which is wonderful but it is like my mind doesn't know what to do if I am not over planning something! lol It is making me think about things that I don't want to deal with like, what am I going to do with my future. I am going to be putting Kaylee in a 2 day a week Mothers Day out program (preschool) in the fall and she will likely do that for 2 years and then my little baby will be in kindergarten. That is when mommy has to grow up and go to school and get an out of the house job. That totally FREAKS me out. I haven't worked in almost 7 years!!! It will be well over 10 before I actually do and it will have been 11 years since I have been in school. I have no clue how in the world I am going to do that. It all scares me. Even worse is that I am 26 years old (almost 27) and I don't have a clue as to what I would want to even do. I don't want to be in school forever, I honestly don't even want to work. I do want to have the education though. If God forbid anything ever happen to Travis or between us I want to know that I can support my children and not have to worry that a minimum wage job is all I can have to take care of my girls. The most practical thing would be a Dental Hygienist. That has limited school and they make decent money. Plus I think that is a job I could easily do. The next thing on my list of maybes is nursing. Much harder school, but better pay and a better schedule. Like I could work from 7pm to 7 am 3 days a week and be done. Come home, send the kids to school and sleep. Still be there when they come home and still spend time with them. I am not confident I can do the schooling for it nor am I sure that I can do the job. I am really indecisive so having a life in my hands may not be a good thing. The thing I would really LOVE, as in I think I could do it plus it is something I have always really wanted to do is counseling. I don't mean marriage counseling but more like a H.S. guidance counselor or something. I would love to work with battered women too (I once dreamed of opening my own shelter one day). I wanted to be a psychologist in High School (until I failed my psych class-the only class I ever failed) I planned on having my doctorate in psychology. I do not want that at all anymore but I would still like to do something in the field. It would require alot of school though. And just so you know I consider 4 years of BS classes a lot of school. What do I consider BS classes? That would be anything that will not directly help me with the job I intend to do. I don't want to take anatomy and geography to be a counselor. No foreign language, no physical education. No thank you. I am a grown person with a family and I do not have time for crap. It requires time for class, time for homework and time for studying, all of those are things that I don't have time for if I don't need it for the job. My job at home would be the same. I will have kids to get off to school and do homework with and take to Girls Scouts and things, and cleaning and cooking and laundry. Those things wont go away. How do people do it? It will be sooooo hard. I am dreading it completely. I would recommend that everyone go to college straight out of High school. Not that I am regretting my decisions at all, it just would have been easier. I have 2 years to figure all this stuff out but considering I blinked and the past 9 years were memories, I think the next 2 will be gone before I know it. Sometimes being a grown up sucks. When you are young you can't wait to be old and on your own and independent, setting your own rules. Then you get there and you long for carefree days with no responsibilities. I wouldn't go back to those days even if I could, but to have that feeling again, even for just a day would be awesome!